Octavo 9 1/4" tall, xv + 429 pages with intertextual black and white photo illustration, stiff wraps. A near fine, clean, neat soft cover edition overall with light shelf wear, gently read; binding tight, paper cream white.

Publisher's Description:

Mary Todd, daughter of the founders of Lexington, Kentucky, was raised in a world of frontier violence. First abandoned at the age of six when her mother died, Mary later fled a hostile stepmother for Springfield, where she met and, after a stormy romance, married the raw Illinois attorney, Abraham Lincoln. Their marriage lasted for twenty five years until his assassination, from which Mary never fully recovered. The desperate measures she took to win the acknowledgement she sought all her life led finally to the shock of a public insanity hearing instigated by her eldest son.